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How Two Stanford Students Are Building Robots for Handling Household Chores - Ep. 224

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Robot Training Approaches and Household Tasks

The chapter explores the debate between training robots with individual modular tasks versus an end-to-end approach, discussing the challenges and benefits of each method. It delves into the specific challenges of household tasks like folding laundry and cleaning up after a party that robots are being trained to handle. The speakers also touch on the difficulties of programming robots for cooking tasks, involving complex chemical reactions and common sense knowledge.

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